'Hah!' I screamed at Andrew, ' Caught you again you sloth!'
'Ouch! Oh no!'
'Are you serious? How do you manage to do that all the time?'
'My incredible slothiness maybe ....'
'Shut it!!!! You two - you two are simply pathetic and-'
I trail off and look at Andrew rolling my eyes.
Here she goes again. I tell him with my eyes.
He seems this catch it. Yeah. He signals.
Yep. You got it right. Me and this guy speak eyebrow. There you go. You have it now. The great Carla and Andrew secret. If that's what it was ever called.
And like the great person I am, I completely forgot to introduce myself. Hi. I'm Carla. The guy who might have implied to the word "slothiness" is Andrew,which also means that I do not know him for that crazy creation ( we're siblings. I swear!) And the girl yelling her head off is none other than the great Martha Kenzy!!!! I am 16. My brothers 17 and Martha is 17 as well. Basically I'm an outcast age wise but whatever. I also have grey eyes, a reasonable height, reasonably brown hair(yikes! My brother's gotten into my head!) And also as per majority opinion, a non agreeable tendency towards sarcasm. I'm making it pretty obvious here.
And of course you are wondering what is happening all around here. No no really, I'll happily tell you all if it means someone's sharing my heavy hearts torture. The great relationship problems. The one and only...... Martha and Andrew fight. You got it right even if you haven't. They've been in a tryingly (is not a word), tiring relationship since two years tirelessly. The one who found it tiring and trying were the normal understanding folk like me.
Yeah right...
Now...trying to keep the sarcasm at the minimum.
We were playing hide and seek and my dearest brother Andrew was caught almost willingly. Don't ask me why now. Love makes strange people do even stranger stuff. Like getting caught in a perfectly easy game like hide and seek. But again this is Martha. If she wouldn't have caught my brother first, she would have started throwing arrows through the bow playing bullzeye instead with the bull being me and the eye being him. Don't even ask. It never made any sense to me. Still doesn't but I've learnt to keep my mouth shut the hard way. Not by playing the bullzeye with the odd arrangements, but I don't really want that to happen to any of us now, either.
' Wonder how you lost now?' I say nonchalantly. I eye Andrew purposefully.
Martha looks at the both of us suspiciously.
'Come on now. ' My brother says grinning wildly, and slings an arm around her and even though she is a danger to the society sometimes, she doesn't really protest, just shrugs.
'You just don't give any competition. ' She complains. At this, the both of us - Me and my brother just start laughing out very loud. Even though Martha can be quite a quality jerk a lot of times, I really do like her. She's been a sister to me all the time since my brother got together with her. She's always supported me and given me good advice even if I wouldn't want to admit it.
Pride floes through both of us and we're equally proud to admit it.
It's a Flaw.
'You're not that good at such stuff either.' I laugh it off. 'Not particularly good at giving your heart to others either. Since you're together with my brother.'
'Atleast he's not the suicidal type.' She says and something in me snaps. Andrew eyes her nervously and gives me a panicked and pained expression.
'What?' I choke.
'I said atleast he doesn't wanna die.....' Her oblivious expression melts away and she gives me a horrified glance.
'Martha!' Andrew gasps. And Martha stays rooted to the stop. I give the ground a cold glare.
'Carla...' She breathes and I am empty. Out of breath. I gasp for air. Everything seems blurry. But I'm empty now. I have nothing left to give now, no emotions.
'Sister I -'
'Don't you sister me!' I shout at him pointing my finger at him.
Why did she have to bring it up now? She's the one who helped me out of it. She got me out of it. Where was the sarcasm in me now? Why did that topic always detract me? Bring me down? Why did she have to bring it up again? I was going on so beautifully.
Why!!??? I wanted to scream, to pull hairs off. But not hers. Mine. I wanted to scream at myself. For letting it get to me.
Snap out of it!!! Foolish. I can't.
'Let's go home.' Andrew says hastily and Martha is still standing in shock. She knows sorry wouldn't cover it. Then why? Why Martha?
Why'd you bring it up sister? I always thought of you as a sister... And sisters don't make you feel hurt.
'No.' I say coldly. 'I'm going out. I'll bring food home. The nearest fast food shops two miles from here. I'll be back.'
'Two miles -!!!' Andrew gasps.
'Don't.' Martha says and Andrew pulls away from her. Disgust clearly etched onto his face.
'Shut up both of you!' I scream. all I need is a walk to clear my head.
' I said I'll be fine.'
Without a word I stomp off by back to the both of them. All I need is time. A walk will do that. Clear my mind. They will have their fight later. I can avoid that as well. I don't think I'll be able to handle it.
Two months. Two months and I'm still suffering. It started two months ago but it seems just like yesterday......
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( To be continued.... Find out what happened to Carla that made that happy go lucky girl turn into cold stone. I hope you will want to find that out.)
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